UID:
almafu_9960993642402883
Format:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Edition:
1 ed.
ISBN:
1-00-326028-4
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1-003-26028-4
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1-000-83549-9
Content:
"Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to characterize efforts to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous languages around the world. With contributions from scholars across the field, the book brings fresh data and insights to this imperative, but still relatively young, field of linguistics. While the studies acknowledge the threat of losing languages in an unprecedented way, they focus on cases that show resilience and explore paths to sustainable progress. The articles are also intended as a celebration of the twenty-five years' work of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, and as a parting gift to FEL's founder and quarter-century chair, Nick Ostler. This book will be informative for researchers, instructors, and specialists in the field of endangered languages. The book can also be useful for university graduate or undergraduate students, and language activists"-- |c Provided by publisher.
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Section I General state of endangered languages today in some large regions of the world: some good news -- 2 The rise and rise of Australian Languages -- 3 Endangered languages in Brazil in 2021 -- 4 Endangered languages of Central Asia. Prospects for development in the new millennium -- 5 They kill languages, don't they? A short chronicle of the planned death of Berber in North Africa -- 6 First- and second-language speakers in the home: perspectives on the state and revitalization of Indigenous languages in Canada -- Section II Theoretical approaches - supporting language maintenance -- 7 Sustaining language use: bridging the gap between language communities and linguists -- 8 Language endangerment: what it is, how to measure it and how to act -- 9 Use of historical material for the safeguarding of endangered languages -- 10 The role of new media in minority- and endangered-language communities -- 11 Examining the role of change in endangered languages with some reference to Arbëresh and Arvanitika -- 12 Transnational languages in the atlas of endangered languages -- 13 Hypothetically speaking: ethics in linguistic fieldwork, a provocation -- Section III Empirical studies: towards sustainable language maintenance and use -- 14 Sustainable pathways for a fledgling language movement: the case of Kaurna of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia -- 15 Jewish Diaspora languages competing with revitalized Israeli Hebrew -- 16 Making 2,180 pages more useful: the Diyari dictionary of Rev. J. G. Reuther -- 17 A note on an Australian homophone loanshift -- 18 Sindhi Hindus, a diasporic community: reasons for shift and revitalisation strategies -- 19 Linguistic diversity endangered: the Waotededo language and the effects of intense contact.
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Selected bibliography of the works of Nicholas Ostler to whom the articles in this volume are dedicated -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Derhemi, Eda Endangered Languages in the 21st Century Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 ISBN 9781032196756
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003260288
